Well-known Individuals Influenced by Montessori

Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

It’s fascinating to see what number of well-known individuals have been influenced in a technique or one other by Maria Montessori’s philosophy and methodology of schooling.

Well-known Individuals Who Had been Montessori College students

The well-known people most clearly influenced by Montessori are former Montessori college students. Many of those people are identified for his or her initiative, creativity, and self-worth. These embody actors George Clooney, Cami Cotler, John and Joan Cusack, Dakota Fanning, Melissa and Sarah Gilbert, Helen Hunt, and Lea Salonga; artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser; authorsAnne Frank and T. Berry Brazelton; administration guru Peter Drucker; Google founders Larry Web page and Sergey Brin; Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos; Wikipedia founderJimmy Wales; Sims designer Will Wright; former Washington Submit proprietor and editorKatharine Graham; former First Woman and editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez; superstar chef and creatorJulia Little one; magicianDavid Blaine; media mogul Sean Combs; musician Joshua Bell; and PrincesWilliam and Harry.

Montessori taught me the enjoyment of discovery…It confirmed you may grow to be thinking about fairly complicated theories, like Pythagorean idea, say, by enjoying with blocks. It’s all about studying in your phrases, fairly than a trainer explaining stuff to you. SimCity comes proper out of Montessori—in the event you give individuals this mannequin for constructing cities, they’ll summary from it rules of city design.

-Will Wright, Laptop Recreation Designer and Authentic Designer of The Sims

Well-known Individuals Who Selected Montessori Schooling for his or her Kids

Montessori schooling is a well-thought-out selection for a lot of well-known people who find themselves in search of a faculty offering individualized instruction and the chance for his or her youngsters to realize their potential. Amongst Montessori dad and mom are former U.S. President Invoice Clinton; Secretary of StateHilary Clinton; Michigan state governorJennifer Granholm; actors Patty Duke Austin, Yul Brynner, Cher, Michael Douglas, Shari Lewis, and Susan St. James; athlete David Robinson; authorsJohn Bradshaw (psychologist and creator),Gordon Ramsay (superstar chef and creator) and Tana Ramsay (cookbook creator and Montessori trainer), and musiciansYo Yo Ma and Willie Nelson.

Construction is a completely necessary a part of the inventive life, and Emily [Yo Yo Ma’s daughter] bought this from her Montessori expertise.

– Yo Yo Ma, World-Famend Cellist

Well-known Individuals who Supported Montessori Schooling

A lot of well-known people are linked by Montessori merely as supporters of the strategy. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell gave monetary assist to Maria Montessori, helped begin the primary Montessori class in Canada, and helped begin one of many first Montessori courses within the U.S. Scientist and inventor Thomas Edisonhelped discovered a Montessori faculty. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget made his first observations of youngsters in a Montessori faculty and served as head of the Swiss Montessori Society for a few years. Kids’s tv superstar Fred “Mister” Rogers was additionally a robust advocate of Montessori schooling.

Montessori has influenced many individuals, well-known or not, who’ve grown to see the world in a brand new method and to observe their very own main. Nobel Laureate in Literature and former Montessori scholar Gabriel Garcia Marquez eloquently describes Montessori’s affect:

I don’t consider there’s a methodology higher than Montessori for making youngsters delicate to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity concerning the secrets and techniques of life.

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